228 A. D. 1602. 



For remedy thereof, flie commands all perfons to defift from any 

 new buildings within three miles of any of the gates of London, and 

 only one family to inhabit one houfe. And having, in the 22d year of 

 her reign, publifhed certain ufeful orders and decrees for inforcing her 

 then proclamation, farther corroborated by act of parliament in the 

 35th year of her reign, yet the faid mifchiefs daily increafmg, through 

 the negligence of magiflrates, &c. llie now commands the lord mayor 

 of London, &c. faithfully to execute the following articles, viz. I and II 

 articles the fame with thofe in the ftatute of the 35 th of this queen, al- 

 ready exhibited under the year 1593 *. 



III) Such tenements as have been divided within thefe ten years in 

 the forefaid limits, the inmates to be avoided prefently, if they have 

 no eftate for life, lives,^ or years, yet enduring ; and for fuch as have 

 fuch eftate or term, then as the fame Ihall end, the tenement to be re- 

 duced to the former ftate. 



IV) All fheds and Ihops to be pulled down, that have been ereded 

 within feven years paft, 



V) Empty houfes, ereded within feven years paft, not to be let to 

 any, unlefs the owner fliall be content that thty be difpofed of for fome 

 of the poor of the parilh that are deflitute of houfes, at fuch rents as 

 they fhall allow. 



VI) Buildings on new foundations not yet finifhed, to be pulled 

 down. With fundry other regulations not material enough for us to 

 tranfcribe. 



We find, by letters from the Emperor Rodolph II, that the Hanfe 

 towns were now willing to enter into an amicable treaty with Queen 

 EUzabeth, to which he underftands the queen not to be averfe. And 

 he appoints the treaty to be held at Bremen, notwithftanding his own 

 imperial mandate of 1597, ^^'^^^ ^^^ concurrence of the German diet, 

 againft the monopolizing company of the Englifh merchant-adventur- 

 ers, who in that year refided at Staden, commanding them to depart the 

 empire in three months time. [Fcedera, V. xv, p. 458.] 



But the queen and nation were become too wife to let the Hanfea- 

 tics return again to their old methods of commerce in England, now fo 

 greatly interfering with the commerce of her own people. 



Queen Elizabeth and the king of Denmark, after fome (harp letters 

 on both fides concerning the exadions and depredations mentioned un- 

 der the preceding year, agreed to fend their plenipotentiaries to Bremen, 

 where the queen had two treaties to manage at the fame time, neither 

 of which came to any thing. 



At that congrefs, the Danes ftrenuoufly infifted that the Englifh fhould 

 pay the new tolls in the Sound and the laft-geldt ; that the Ruflia com- 



* Sec above in the years 1580 aud IJ93. 



